DOJ and FBI takedown largest ever illegal dark web marketplace
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) together with the FBI have seized and shut down AlphaBay, a criminal marketplace on the "dark web" on Thursday. The site, which has reportedly been operating on the...
Europe court rules The Pirate Bay directly infringes copyrights
The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that the BitTorrent sharing site, The Pirate Bay (TPB) , is directly infringing on copyright laws. TPB allows users to share and download movies, television shows and...
European Court of Justice rules sale of devices that make piracy easier may violate copyright law
The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that devices with pre-installed software that make it easier to stream pirated content may violate an European Union (EU) copyright protection directive . The court determined that the...
Supreme court declines to hear Vimeo copyright infringement case
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from record companies that want to pursue a copyright infringement case against music site Vimeo for hosting music by classic artists....
New Zealand high court rules content-sharing site founder can be extradited to US
The New Zealand High Court ruled on Monday that Kim Dotcom , the founder of content-sharing site Megaupload.com, is eligible for extradition to the US on fraud offenses. Dotcom and his alleged co-conspirators are facing numerous...
Sweden appeals court orders Internet provider to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay
The Swedish Court of Patent Appeals and the Market Court , an appellate court with exclusive jurisdiction over intellectual property cases, ordered an Internet service provider (ISP) to block access to the file-sharing site...
Australia court: ISPs must block Pirate Bay and other websites for copyright infringement
The Federal Court of Australia ruled against Australian Internet service providers (ISP) on Thursday, forcing them to block five named companies and all their related websites. All of the five named companies—Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound, IsoHunt and...
Electronic Frontier Foundation sues to ease access to copyrighted material
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint today in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the “anti-circumvention” and “anti-trafficking” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) [act,...
Federal appeals court rules Google may not ignore Mississippi subpoena
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday overturned a district court decision that allowed Google to ignore a subpoena. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood began investigating Google in 2012 for...
Stockholm's district court on Friday, ruled against forcing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block The Pirate Bay and Swefilmer, a file sharing and streaming website, respectively. The plaintiffs, Swedish Film Industry, Nordisk Film, Universal Music, Sony...
